Dr. Brian Gilchrist, President, Treasurer, Chief Engineer

Personal Webpage: http://www.eecs.umich.edu/RADLAB/bio/gilchrist.dir/gilchrist_hp.html
Email: gilchrist@edapplications.com

Dr. Brian Gilchrist has 23 years of industrial and academic experience centering on microwave and plasma technology and includes the development of space-flight hardware.

In particular, he has over 12 years of industrial microwave systems and technology research and development experience. He continues this RF and plasma experience in his academic and research roles at the University of Michigan's Radiation Laboratory for applied electromagnetics.

His research involves developing electrodynamic tethers as a new propellantless space propulsion technology, microwave and probe-based plasma diagnostics for the ionosphere and for plasma electric propulsion systems, and spacecraft technology.

He is active in the development of consumable-free electron emission systems (using field emission) for ED tethers and new ED tether technology. He was a Co-I on the NASA MSFC ProSEDS electrodynamic tether experiment providing plasma diagnostics and high-voltage tether control instrumentation and directed a team of over 100 students to develop Michigan's first-ever student satellite (called Icarus) for the NASA ProSEDS mission.

He was Principal Investigator for the Shuttle Electrodynamic Tether System (SETS) experiment that flew on the STSñ75 shuttle mission in 1996 as part of the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) mission. He was a Co-I on an Air Force program to develop a high powered Hall electric propulsion thruster and was a Co-PI on a related program investigating spacecraft electromagnetic interaction effects of advanced electric propulsion systems (with Gallimore).

He was also PI for an Air Force effort to investigate fundamental issues associated with propagating artificially generated relativistic electron beams in space.

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